# Campfire: Polo Gonzalez

Polo Gonzalez is a Mission District local. He has been involved in community services since his youth, including graffiti abatement programs, volunteering at event security for Carnival, and most recently, collaborating with the DJ Project at Horizons Unlimited, which teaches youth creative and business management skills. Today, he is a manager at a Philz Coffeehouse, where he politely admonishes clients who call The Mission, “The Mish” , to please call it by its proper name. His family was being evicted from their Lucky Street home of 34 years. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen City storytellers who shared their eviction horror stories that evening around the fire. Related event details: "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors," Silverstone Cafe at (24th Street near Mission Street), 1/17/2014, 6 -9 p.m., co-hosted by Adriana Camarena with the project "Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission District , and Erin McElroy with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (antievictionmappingproject.net) This work was partially funded with a CalHumanities Community Stories Grant and a grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2014
- By: Adriana Camarena
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/PoloFinal)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/PoloFinal?play=1)